A W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEFTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V ol. 165. No. 4944.
L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 9, 1935.
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News and No t e s ................. 161 The Third S p r i n g ................. 165 Locarnos in the Air . . . 165 Be My V a le n t in e ................. 166 The Coronation Day of
H.H. Pius X I ................. 167 The “ Month’s Mind ” for
Cardinal B o u r n e ................. 167 Altar S to n e s ............................ 168 Reviews :
Mr. Wilder’s Latest . .. 168 The Last of the Wild
Geese . . .
Major Logic ................. 169
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CONTENTS
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New Books and Music . . . 170 Et Ce t e r a ............................ 172 Notes for Musicians . . . 178 Letters to the Editor:
Cemetery Chapels . . . 174 “ S. J. G.” and the Banks 174 “ S. J. G.’ s ” Rejoinder . . . 174 A Cardinal for Scotland,
t o o ....................................... 174 Prom The Tablet of Long
A g o ....................................... 175 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent's Weekly Letter from) ............................ 177
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A Retreat Congress for Women ............................ 179 The Police Guild Dinner . . . 179 Obituary ............................ 180 The St. Francis Leper Guild 180 Dr. Downey’s Home-Coming 181 Coming Events ................. 181 W i l l s ....................................... 181 Orb is Terrarum :
England ............................ 182 Ireland ............................ 182 Algeria ............... . . . 183 Brazil ............................ 183
Orbis Terrarum:
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France ............................ 184 Germany ............................ 184 India ............................ 184 Malta ............................ 184 Manchukuo 184 Mexico ............................ 184 Nigeria ............................ 184 Poland ............................ 184 Spain . . . . . . 186 Switzerland ................. 186 Tristan da Cunha . . . 186 The Vatican C i t y ................. 186 Y ugoslavia ............................ 188 Social and Personal . . . 188 Ch e s s ....................................... 188
N O T A N D A
Pius X I , Pontiff and Sovereign. Next Tuesday’s anniversary o f Coronation-day (pp. 161, 167).
Good news from Rome. The imminent canonization o f BB. John Fisher and Thomas ' More. A Third Spring? (p. 165).
“ Locarnos in the A ir .” A n Anglo-French proposal against the menace o f bombing ’ planes (p. 165).
St. Valentine’s Day. W ithout suggesting any definite plan, a Tablet leader-writer asks fo r a revival o f discreet match-making “ on sound lines ” (p. 166).
H ow the maxim Festina lente has been obeyed by the Infallible Church. A quantitative answer to a quantitative taunt in a L ow Church weekly (p. 163).
“ A ll Altars to be pulled to the ground, and the altar stones defaced and .bestowed to some common use.” What the Reform ers desired and intended with regard to the Sacrifice o f the Mass (p. 168).
Germany’s Foreign Missions. Their desperate straits owing to currency restrictions (p. 164).
Tower Hill. H ow the Improvement Scheme now being urged would open up to pilgrims the s ite (o f the martyrdom o f Blessed John Fisher and Blessed Thomas More (pp. 171-2).
NEWS AND NOTES T O the heart o f a father, all his offspring are dear, whether they be strong or feeble, clever or not clever. What matters is that they are his children. The Englishmen and Englishwomen who obey King George in things temporal and Pope Pius X I in things spiritual are only a minority o f this nation and a very small fraction indeed o f the Universal Church; but this makes no
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difference at all to the paternal benevolence o f our H o ly Father. Amidst a thousand cares, he has given pains and time without stint to the petitions o f his English children concerning the two martyrs, John Fisher and Thomas More, who laid down their lives for the H oly See four centuries ago, when Pope Paul I I I sat on the Throne o f the Fisherman. And this is only one o f the many claims which the Pontiff now gloriously reigning has upon English Catholic gratitude. Our heaviest debt to him is in respect o f his unceasing solicitude for the whole Church. For example, it is he who will choose a Head for the Church in England and Wales, now bereaved o f its Hierarchy’s praeses perpetuus, and hardly a week passes when he does not have to select pastors and leaders for dioceses and provinces where an unsuitable appointment would carry disaster in its train. Divine Providence has blessed the Catholic Church in this day and generation with a Ruler who is regarded b y many outside the Church, as well as by the faithful themselves, as the greatest man now living.
Next Tuesday will give us an opportunity of manifesting our thankfulness to Almighty God for the blessing o f a great Pope. That day will be the thirteenth anniversary o f the Coronation o f His Holiness. On a further page o f this week’s Tablet, there are particulars o f the celebrations which are to be held in the Archdioceses o f Westminster and Liverpool. In parishes remote from cathedrals or other great churches there will be the usual daily Mass, at which the faithful can pray for the Holy Father’s intentions. We trust that in hundreds o f centres the multitudes pouring in and out of Catholic churches next Tuesday will be so great that passers-by will ask “ What is this all about ? ” and will receive the answer, “ It is the anniversary o f the Pope’s Coronation.”
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